Discover the

Monthly Archives: May, 2020

From pandemic to economy to elections: The people say humanity comes first!

  “While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not.” Those words spoken by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during a live-streamed speech April...

Resistance mounts as a failing system kills us

  As stories in this digital edition of the People’s Tribune show, the economic and public health catastrophe now gripping America is exposing a for-profit...

Stop Silencing Doctors: A Covid Clinician Manifesto

I’ve heard about the firing of Dr. Ming Lin in WA state, physician and ER doctor . . . for speaking out about the complete lack of PPE and protection for front line staff…

We should nationalize the health care system, says nurse

I work at a public hospital within the Health and Hospitals Corporation system. We rely on public funding that has been cut continuously over the past several decades. ...

Covid-19 ‘exposes US racism in a stark new way’

The Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately hitting communities that have historically suffered from racism and unequal treatment, including African Americans, ...

Low wage workers organize to save themselves and all of us

Workers from Amazon, Walmart, Whole Foods and other grocery stores, transit workers, delivery drivers and domestic workers considered essential employees are organizing ...

House people now, and permanently!

As the Corona virus sweeps its deadly way across the country, homeless-led groups are demanding real housing and calling for taking over empty spaces, whether ‘given’ or ...

Voices of tenants for a rent freeze

On April 1 in Chicago, the Autonomous Tenants Union (ATU), in conjunction with the Democratic Socialists of America, the Lift the Ban Coalition and others, livestreamed ...

Capitalist pyramid scheme may come crashing down

The economy was on thin ice even before the virus hit. Wall Street commentators said all it would take to push it over the edge was a “black-swan” event — something ...

Los Angeles Bernie Metro Squad: Grassroots Uplifts Sanders

The grassroots importance during this campaign cycle and the previous cycle is what uplifted Bernie Sanders. It was the people. The organic creativity and the clear ...

Wisconsin elections: Blood On Their Hands

During the primary, Wisconsin voters were forced to risk their lives to exercise their right to vote.

Writer’s grandson among hundreds in Cook County Jail who have Covid-19

This story is about the experience of the author’s 21-year-old grandson, Zachary Thomas, who has been detained since mid-March in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, now ...

US Supreme Court curtails Wisconsin voter rights

On April 6, the U.S Supreme Court refused to postpone the Wisconsin primary until June, forcing voters to go to the polls in April. The ruling resulted in the disenfranchisement ...

Environmental struggles: A fight for survival

Fifty years after the EPA was established to protect our environment, it has been captured by corporate forces intent on lifting all regulations on industry.

Pandemic exposes possibilities for laborless humanity

We are at a time in our lives that humanity can make a decision to ensure that every man, woman, and child, plus future generations, can have the necessities to thrive ...

May First Actions!

Actions beginning on May 1 aim to build a US and global movement that determines how we emerge from the crisis with life itself as the primary value. It is about a true ...

‘Don’t let us die like animals,’ say women in ICE custody

Women asylum seekers in ICE custody at the for-profit jail in the small rural town of Jena, LA are desperate due to the Coronavirus. “We are afraid because we ...

Eyewitness account: Migrants tell of fleeing atrocities in Mexico

The shelters in Reynosa began to fill to overflowing once again in December, just as the cold arrived. Thanks to Church World Services, we were able to get a lot of ...

Farmworkers are essential, yet vulnerable

Recent interviews with California farmworkers conducted by Líderes Campesinas reveal that although considered essential to the U.S. economy, they are also the ...

Visions and Views

“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world ...

Independent Media Are Needed More Than Ever!

In a time of crisis, the People’s Tribune brings to our readers our own reporting and also the voices of those fighting for a society and a government that meets our ...